Research
Research snapshot: Examining the impact of negative media coverage on LGBTQ+ young adults
Sep. 17, 2024—Kirsty Clark, assistant professor of medicine, health, and society, studies mental health disparities impacting LGBTQ+ populations through her lab. The Clark Lab then develops evidence-based interventions to disrupt the course of such disparities. Clark recently published research in JAMA Pediatrics that explores the effects of negative news and media coverage on the intensity of suicidal...
Stephen Taylor appointed to NASA’s Laser Interferometer Space Antenna mission
Sep. 16, 2024—Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity may soon be disproven by the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), and Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy Stephen Taylor will be part of a selective team of scientists leading the effort. Taylor is one of only six scientists nationwide appointed to the LISA team, a joint mission between...
Researchers discover the evolution of seasonal anticipation in cyanobacteria
Sep. 11, 2024—New research led by recent Vanderbilt Ph.D. alumna Maria Luísa Jabbur from the Johnson Lab and BBSRC Discovery Fellow at the John Innes Centre, in the UK has uncovered that even cyanobacteria—tiny organisms with a generation time of just five to six ho...
Restoring Vanderbilt’s Natural History Museum: Rediscovering the lost plesiosaur (cast)
Sep. 2, 2024—Embarking on a new research project often brings unexpected discoveries—some intriguing, some novel, but rarely a find of a lifetime. Such a remarkable discovery occurred when university archivist and associate director Kathy Smith stumbled upon a pile...
Rediscovering the Lost Plesiosaur (Cast): Restoring Vanderbilt’s Natural History Museum
Aug. 28, 2024—Research projects investigating the history of evolution at Vanderbilt University led to the rediscovery of a long-lost Crampton’s Plesiosaur Cast from the 1870s.
Michelle Young: Modeling ethical practices in Peruvian archaeology
Aug. 20, 2024—Since 2020, Vanderbilt archaeologist Michelle Young has directed the Cinnabar Roads Project, which explores ancient exchange routes used to transport cinnabar, a powdery mineral made of mercury and sulfur that was extracted and processed for pigment. Y...
Michelle Young: Modeling ethical practices in Peruvian archaeology
Aug. 20, 2024—By Ann Marie Deer Owens When Vanderbilt archaeologist Michelle Young travels to the Peruvian Andes to study ancient Indigenous societies, her itinerary is filled with much more than field surveys and excavations. “I put a priority on forging local partnerships based on communication and mutual respect with the Quechua-speaking and mestizo (mixed Indigenous-European) communities in...
Academic Special Forces
Aug. 5, 2024—See how students in a special Immersion Vanderbilt project are partnering with a new national security institute to prevent cybersecurity attacks.
Student Immersion in National Security
Aug. 5, 2024—See how students in a special Immersion Vanderbilt project are partnering with a new national security institute to prevent cybersecurity attacks.
The physicist who wants to build a telescope bigger than Earth
Jul. 16, 2024—Vanderbilt professor Alex Lupsasca plans to extend Earth's largest telescope network beyond the atmosphere with a space-based dish. It could spot part of a black hole we've never seen before – and perhaps discover new physics.